On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:32:17PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:21:50AM -0700, Joe Conway wrote: > >>We also decided to turn off the init script execution entirely. The DBAs > >>were more comfortable with a manual database startup for a production > >>machine anyway (this is the way they typically handle Oracle databases > >>also). They get paged if the server ever goes down unplanned, and in > >>that event they like to check things out before bringing the db back up. > >>For planned outages, database startup is simply part of the plan. > > > >I'd *really* like to have an official way to just disable the initdb > >code entirely. > > I am not exactly sure why we initdb at all. IMHO it would be better if > the start script just checked if there was a cluster. If not, it > wouldn't start, it would error with: You do not have a cluster, please > read man page on initdb.
As Tom mentioned, it's for newbie-friendliness. While I can understand that, I think it needs to be easy to shut that off. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings